High Plains Drifter

Tomorrow is a chase day if I can get off work early.  I am scheduled an "easy to get off" supernumerary day shift, and since I’m not working a forecasting shift + the fact that severe should avoid the Dodge City forecast area, I can probably take a half day off, leave at noon, and head east toward Wichita.  I do plan to "join the masses" and play the conventional obvious target from Wichita, KS to the Oklahoma border.  This does appear to be the best play — along the dryline and ahead of the cold front which will be moving rapidly southeast through central KS by late afternoon/early evening.  Surface winds should back to about 170 or 180 degrees by late afternoon, increasing surface convergence along dryline.  I like to play the thermal noses along and immediately west of the dryline…and this also appears to be setting up along the KS-OK border by late afternoon somewhere between Medicine Lodge and Harper, KS.  My target is somewhere between Kingman and Harper at this point (see black circle in image below).  I will have Underthemeso.com in "chase mode" by early afternoon if I do indeed get off work early.  That final decision will be made in the morning while at work.  At this point I’m about 80% sure I’ll get off and be able to chase.